Bernier, FRANÇOIS, a French physician and traveller, famous alike as a philosopher and a wit, was born at Angers, in France, and departed for the East about 1654. He visited Syria, Egypt, Arabia, and India, in the last of which countries he resided for twelve years in the capacity of physician to Aurungzebe, and on his return to France he published a delightful account of his travels in 1670-71. Bernier died at Paris in 1688.
Bernier, FRANÇOIS
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 100
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